Music Review

GNL Zamba is a Ugandan musician who grew up surrounded by influences like Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, Ice Cube, and Gil Scott-Heron. It’s a mixed bag of distinct artists that’s hard to imagine united under a single sound, but that’s what Zamba…

Metal has a deeply woven thematic relationship with all things mythological and mystical, and for any niche philosophy, story, or idea, a band must truly immerse themselves in it to adequately interpret and express it. NYC alternative metal…

Depending on who you ask, ambient/moody music belongs exclusively in the background for film and television productions as it’s too boring otherwise. It’s all too easy to sound a little generic, bland, or melodramatic with this style, but…

Keen Garrity is the stage name of Knoxville, Tennessee native, Rebekah Burchfield, whose debut album Get Big dropped earlier this year. An ex-member of the prog rock outfit Wards of the Mayor, she’s now following in the footsteps of…

Going out on a limb as an artist is part of the job if you want to stand out, and Idiot Grins delivered in spades on their latest LP, Thoughts & Prayers. Instead of drafting in an obscure collaborator or involving left-of-field…

Welcome to The Rotation, a roundup of the week’s key moments in music and why you should listen. Read Volume 8 below, or scroll to the end for playlists on Spotify and Apple Music. Previous instalments available here. This week, St. Vincent…

Up to now, the work of Toronto songwriter Tamara Lindeman was easily identifiable as folk—fingerpicked guitars and banjos accompanied by sweetly sung vocals, delivered with a lo-fi aesthetic that began to develop into something more on the…

The energy is loud, large, and uncompromising, the vocals dance between melodic and sweet, and the themes are grandiose and unabashedly in-your-face. It’s an intriguing combo couched in punk rock, but there’s a sweeping finesse to the…

Exactly three years removed from the release of debut LP Songs of Praise, shame return as one of the most hyped bands of the late '10s post-punk revival. Drunk Tank Pink shrewdly enlists the nous of renowned UK producer James Ford (Arctic…

What's sure to be one of the strangest records of the year comes from Stockholm as the joyfully subversive Viagra Boys return on Welfare Jazz with a hedonistic hybrid of lo-fi, punk, jazz, country and a whole host of other genres which the…